Day 11: Saint Pete Evening
We didn't really stop for dinner as we had a 7:00 show. We walked to the theater, but had an unexpected surprise on the way. One of the customs here and in the Baltics is for newly weds to take a lock and lock it on a bridge railing and throw the keys into the river. Thus the marriage is "locked in place" and you'd have to hire a diver to retrieve the keys to unlock the marriage. Since we were here for our 40th anniversary, Silvija bought a lock for us and we locked it on the bridge over the Narva and we threw the keys in the river. Very cute and romantic.
We proceeded to the theater which was an interesting building dedicated to Lenin. Before the performance there was champagne, and lots of little stalls to buy schlock.... Aah, souvenirs. The performance started ok with a Russian barbershop quartet, but the proceeded to dancing natives in colorful costumes. I had seen this show before, but as I said, I had been outvoted. The 2 shots of vodka at intermission helped.
A little cheese plate later sufficed for dinner.
Stephen J. Rockower, MD
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